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100 novels, all-time

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I was surprised to see a couple of these books made the list, such as The Corrections, and Never Let Me Go, only because it came out this year. A majority of the others I recognized weren't surprising to see on the list.

I'm happy to see The Watchmen made the list. The story is truly amazing for a comic book and is better than some novels I've read.

What do you guys think? Is this a pretty safe list or do you think Time let some trash into the spotlight?

Some good books on that list. But they aren't all American. It's English-speaking novels. I'm glad to see that CS Lewis made it with The Lion, the Witch, amd the Wardrobe. Awesome books - the whole series.

Some books I didn't like that were on there were Wide Sargasso Sea, Herzog and Neuromancer. Joan Didion's Play it As it Lays was on there, but I was surprised to see it there. I enjoyed that book. It is cool that the Watchmen was on there. I don't dig William Gibson but I appreciate that they included genre novels. Same goes with Raymond Chandler. But nice list. A lot more to read.

White Noise is on there?
That book is still sitting on my shelf.
i bought i with about five other books all at once and so i never got past the first ten pages because it was not interesting enough to keep me from starting another new one.
maybe i'll give it another try, but as Vendetta pointed out, it's not like this list should be completed trusted as the best list there is.
how about a 'best 100 list's of the 100 best books' ever article? then you could cross-reference and... i don't know where i'm going with this.

Woah! I loved White Noise, it was just so well written and comforting somehow. I bought it for my boyfriend, I was going to give it to him the next day so I managed to finish it in an evening. I meant to just look at the first chapter or so, to get a feel of it, but it hooked me and reeled me in. You must give it a fair trial!

I was surprised to see Their Eyes Were Watching God on there. It's not such a remarkable work in my opinion.

White Noise, Catch 22, Watchmen, Ubik, The Lord of The Flies, Slaughterhouse-Five, Neuromancer, On The Road. These I own and have read and enjoyed. A Clockwork Orange sits waiting to be looked over though on my shelf. I was surprised to see Alan Moore's Watchmen up there, it being a graphic novel. It truly is a amazing graphic novel that hits subjects in the comic field and has tested the age of time and is truly amazing still after 20 years.

Maybe but i barely remember any on those books and i have no doubt some of them had an adverse effect on my youth, for example On the Road turned me into a teenage hitchiker, and after reading Naked Lunch i wasted many saturday nights in search of anal mucus, (what is it man, anyone know?), you know so it ain't know thing really.

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